Re: Ann, wife of Luke Sr. of Richmond County, VA; d. ca. 1725; was she a Youell?
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Re: Ann, wife of Luke Sr. of Richmond County, VA; d. ca. 1725; was she a Youell?
Duane Boggs 9/21/10
A fellow Thornton researcher has been kind enough to share with me the following information, which establishes that the Joseph Neale who sold land to Thornton was indeed the son of the older Joseph Neale, who had named Thomas Youell as executor in his Will.The evidence comes from the following record.
On January 22, 1712, in Westmoreland County court. Joseph Beale acknowledged his sale to John Erwin of 128 acres in Cople Parish Westmoreland Co. part of a tract….sold to Joseph Beale who by his Last Will and Testament had left this land to his son Joseph Beale as by several conveyances on record in Richmond County.This land adjoined land belonging to Thomas Browning, George Brown, and for the remaining part of the 200 acres which now [i.e., 1712] is in possession of Luke Thornton Jr. on or near the branches of Panticoe Run and near the border between Westmoreland and Richmond counties.
Therefore, the Youell to Beale and Beale to Thornton connections are some circumstantial evidence of a possible relationship (i.e., marriage of Luke Thornton, Sr. to Ann Youell).